Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers
by Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Boštjan Kaluža, Dr. Uday Kamath, Krishna Choppella
Summary
In this chapter, we introduced a number of NLP tasks and showed how they are supported. In particular, we used OpenNLP and DL4J to illustrate how they are performed. While there are a number of other libraries available, these examples provide a good introduction to the techniques.
We started with an introduction to basic NLP terms and concepts such as named entity recognition, POS, and relationships between elements of a sentence. Named entity recognition is concerned with finding and labeling the parts of a sentence such as people, locations, and things. POS associates labels with elements of a sentence. For example, NN refers to a noun and VB to a verb.
We then included a discussion of the Word2Vec and Doc2Vec neural networks. These were ...